S.B.

PATIL PUBLIC SCHOOL

QUESTION BANK –IX (for Eva-II) 2018
ENGLISH

Q. 1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:
1. Now a days people generally think that there is nothing which is either right or wrong and the action which is
suited to the situation must be taken. They don’t worry whether their actions are moral or not. Their only
concern social and economic acceptability. Each one of us, at one time or the other, has heard the statement,
“Okay, have it own way” and so this is the way that many in the world live.
2. Righteousness is very simple. In every situation that we confront in life, there is either a right way or a wrong
v to proceed. If we choose the right way, we are sustained in our actions by the principles of righteousness, in
which
e is power from the heavens above. If we choose the wrong way and act on that choice, there is no such
heavenly power, we are alone and destined to fail.
I3.The question arises. How do we know which is right and which is wrong ? The system of prayer is organized
as a communication system to transmit concepts of truth into the minds of human beings. God, through our
conscience, ruh or spirit enlightens our minds and gives us clarity of understanding of the concepts of truth.
This is the way God teaches us to distinguish right from wrong. If we are willing to learn his ways and follow
them, we will never have to guess and will always know for sure the difference between right and wrong.
4. Each one of us lives with his or her unique situation. There are challenges related to health, money,
literacy,singIeness, loneliness, oppression, abuse, transgression, and a never-ending list of existing conditions.
The solution to all these challenges is righteousness..In righteousness, there is the fulfillment of faith and hope.
Every blessing that God promised to his children is predicated upon obedience to his laws and
commandments. Obedience to his laws and commandments is what makes us righteous, and that
righteousness qualifies us to be worthy of the promised blessings.
5. In his benevolence, God has given us the law of repentance. Whenever there is disobedience to God’s laws
and commandments, the option of repentance is open to us. If we act upon this marvelous law, we will be
forgiven for our disobedience and we can decide to become more righteous; thus repentance leads us to
righteousness. In fact, most of challenges that we have in morality can be solved by repentance and finally by
righteousness. All religions in the world teach this very basic truth.
a) When do we feel isolated and are likely to fail?
b) In which two ways can we face a difficult situation?
c) In which way can we decide whether an action is right or not?
d) How can we make ourselves peaceful and happy?
e).What is the antonym of the word, ‘proceed’ ?

Q2. Read the following passage carefully:

On the way to Stok, the village ten miles outside Leh, there is a suspension bridge that spans the Indus. From
the distance, it looks like a circus tent, it is so covered with prayer flags of every colour. I am sitting on the seat
next to the driver, a young Ladakhi, and I ask him, “Why are there so many prayer flags ?“ He looks at me as if
I am mad. “If there are no prayer flags, the river would get angry.” It is such a festive and exuberant gesture,
covering the steel lines of the bridge with scarves and mantras and holy dragons, that I want to sing. As the
bus crosses the bridge, the prayer flags flap against it. The driver turns to me and smiles. “Every time I am
crossing the bridge I am saying my prayers. It is holy, this bridge.” How old is this bridge ? He does not know. It
is as if it had always been there like the pile of stones in the mountains, like the stupas, like the small wayside
shrines. The spirit of Ladakh has changed it into a shrine, an object of worship. Does the bridge have its
guardian Buddha ? The driver smiled and did not answer. The rocks on the sides of the paths are sprinkled
with small blue flowers, a fierce wild green grass grows between the boulders; with every quarter of an hour
the heat increases and the rocks change, growing more and more fantastical, wings of cathedrals, falling into
the river below, large fluted columns, like the hermit perches of Cappadoda, with golden moss spiffing over
from their height and yet it is not the rocks and their dazzling forms that move me most. Resting on the top of a
mountain pass, I found that the rock I was sitting on was ringed on by white stones, heaped there by travellers
over many years; walking on and on into the highest parts of the pass, I found just as I was too tired to go any
further, that there was a deserted shepherd’s hut, with its roof torn off by the wind, and a small rose-bush
growing in the shelter of one of its walls. I sat in it and ate my bread and cheese. On the wall the shepherd had
written with charcoal from the fire, ‘Om’, just one letter again and again. And under each letter he had sketched
a rough Buddha’s face.
On the basis of your reading of the above passage answer the following questions briefly:

a. From the distance, the bridge looks like a circus tent because
b. The word ‘deserted’ means
c. The bridge is covered with many prayer flags
d. According to the driver the river would get angry because
e. What happens to the prayer flags when the bus
f. The driver prays while crossing the bridge crosses the bridge?
g. The word ‘exuberant’ means
h. The rocks change and grow strangely beautiful as

WRITING SECTION

Q.1 You saw a girl working as a maid while going to your school today. Write a diary entry expressing your
views on child labour.Write this entry in about 100-150 words.

Q2.You visited a science fair in a nearby school.Record your experience in the form of a diary entry in about
100-120 words.

Q3.Write a paragraph on the topic ‘Cruelty to Animals.’(100-150words)

Q4.Write a paragraph on ‘Need of Public Transport System’(100-150 words)

Q5.You had bought an expensive alarm clock but you realise that it is not functioning properly. Write a letter to
Ashok Watch Company Nodia complaining about the same.

Q6.You are Kiran/Ketkii .You wish to join ‘Toppers’ coaching, Pune after appearing in your Board Exams.Write
a letter to the Manager enquiring about the coaching classes for the next sessions

GRAMMAR SECTION

Q1.The following passage has not been edited.There is one error in each line.Write the error and the
correction.The first one is done for example:

Error Correction

The Louvre is a world’s largest e.g a the

and old museum.It is located a……………. ………………

along the bank of the Sein River by Paris,France. b……………. ………………

and called the Grand Louvre,it is the world’s most visiting museum c…………. ………………

It attracted tourists from all over the world. d………….. ……………

Q2.

Error correction

If you taken interest in others, others will …………. ……………

take interest in you.We are engrossed ………… …………….

in ourselves that we don’t had time …………. …………….

to find out how X X

interesting the world was ……………. ……………

Q3.Read the following passage.Fill in the blanls by choosing the most appropriate option from the
ones given below.

We are often(i)…………others not to dream.People say dreamers are (ii)………….in their own world and don’t
do anything worthwhile.They are (ii)……..but to a certain extend only.A person,who only dreams and (iv)………
not do anything will be called a failure in life.

a i. for ii.in iii.by iv.from

b. i.lose ii.loss iii.lost iv.loose
c. i.write ii.right iii.rite iv.wright
d. i.does ii.did iii.done iv.do
Q4.A person with positive attitude (i)……….. that every cloud has a silver lining.He knows that
(ii)……….suffering or problems has some hidden lesson in it.He feels that suffering is a blessing (iii)……….
Disguise.His positive attitude makes (iv)………. Life heaven.
a. i.know ii.knows iii.knowing iv.knew
b. ii.each ii.all iii.every iv.no
c. i.with ii.in iii.at iv.to
d. i.their ii.there iii.her iv.his

Q5.Rearrange the following words to form meaningful sentences:

a) and/his/word/thoughtful/keeps/is/always/gentleman/true/a
b) to keep/and/hasten/promise/it/will be/he/slow/to /a /make/
c) friendship/a /you/broken/cost/promise/your/can/
d) promise/is/true/a/forever/friendship/you/keep

Q6. The/are/a students/lot/motivated/

b) presumption/they/are/expressive/without/listen/and/
c) they/achieve/willing/are/tirelessly/to/their/goals/to/work/
d) the/sky/is/that/for/the/know/the/them/limit/
Q6.Read the following conversation and complete the passage that follows:
Husband : Get my lunch quickly,I am in great hurry
Wife : Oh!Really,Why did you not come home a bit earlier?
Husband :Now look,you have made a habit to argue with me and no husband likes that sort of thing.
The husband urged his wife (i)……………. Adding that (ii)………..hurry.The wife mockingly asked
him(ii)……….hurry and enquired (iv)…………earlier.The husband speaking in a tone of irritation pointes out
that he did not like her habit of arguing.

Q7.Read the following conversation and complete the passage that follows:
Teacher : Ravi,may I know why didn’t you come to school yesterday?
Ravi :Sir,I had toothache.
Teacher :Has the toothache gone?
Ravi :I don’t know sir,I left the tooth with the dentist.
LITERATURE
1. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

When the humid shadows hover

Over all the starry spheres
And the melancholy darkness,
Gently weeps in rainy tears,
What a bliss to press the pillow
Of a cottage-chamber bed
And lie listening to the patter
Of the soft rain overhead !
(a) What does ‘humid shadow’ mean here?
(b) How does the poet describe the falling of rain?
(c) Explain ‘ ‘ melancholy’’ darkness
(d) How is the melancholy eased?

2. Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow:
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made :
Nine bean-rows will I have there , a hive for the honey-bee
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

(a) What does Innisfree symbolize?

(b) Trace a word from the extract which is the antonym of slumber?
(c)Why does the poet say ‘I will arise and go now’?
(d)How will the poet make his cabin?
3. Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow:
Wind , come softly.
Don’t break the shutters of the windows.
Don’t scatter the papers.
Don’t throw down the books on the shelf,
(a) What does the poet ask the wind to do?
(b)What does the wind do?
(c) Why does the winds not listen to the speaker?
(d) Give another word for the expression-to spread all over.
3.Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow:
1.On Sunday afternoon Grandmother sent her down to the drawing –room to have a ‘nice talk with father and
mother’.But the little girl always found mother reading and father stretched out on the sofa, his handkerchief
on his face,his feet on one of the best cushions, sleeping soundly and snoring.
a.Why did grandmother send the girl down to the drawing room?
b.What did she see in the drawing room?
c.Where do you think father should be sleeping?
2.The instrument so different from the pungi had to be given a new game. As the story goes, since it was first
played in the Shah’s cambers and was played by a nai (barber),The instrument was named ‘shehnai’
The sound of the shenai began to be considered auspicious. And for this reason it is still played in temples and
is an indispensable component of any North Indian wedding. In the past, the sehnai was part of the naubat or
traditional ensemble of nine instruments found in royal courts. Till recently it was used only in temples and
weddings. The credit for bringing this instrument onto the classical stage goes to Ustad Bismillah Khan.
a.How did the ‘Shehnai’ get its name?
b.How is Shenai important?
c.What did Bismillah Khan do?
4.Answer the following in 30-40 words each:
a.Describe the County Inspector.
b.Why do you think Kezia stammered in her father’s presence?
c.Why does the world remember Einstein as a ‘world citizen’?
d.How did Einstien’s private life unfold after he completed his studies?
e.Why did Tommy consider the book ‘a waste’?
f.Describe the two paths at the crossroad in the forest.
g.What does the poet like to do when it rains?
h.What does the cabin symbolize in the poem?
i.What does the poet plan to do when he reaches the lake?
k.What does the poet says the wind God winnows?
l.Why did the disciple decide to stay in the Kingdom of Fools? Is it a good idea?
m.On what condition did the guru agree to be the king?
n.Why was Toto not introduced to grandmother?
o.What kind of life did Mahendra lead?
5.Answer the following in 100 -120 words each.
1.Write the character sketch of Iswaran.
2.How do you know that the child was fond of nature in the stort ‘The Lost Child’?
3.How do you know that Toto was mischievous?
4.Kezia decides that there were different kind of fathers.What kind of father was Mr.Macdonald and how was
he different from Kezia’s father?
5.Attempt a paragraph on Ustad Bismillah Khan.
6.How would you compare a mechinacal teacher to a human teacher?
7.Describe the image created about the isle in your mind.
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